Searching for Summer
“Searching for Summer” is a great story written by Joan Aiken. This story takes place in the time when Hiroshima and Nagasaki was bombed by the atomic bomb. The setting is in England and the weather is very cloudy and dark. Many people have been trying to search for a glimpse of sunlight all over England and no one has had any luck. The two main characters are a newly wed couple, Lily and Tom. For their honeymoon they have decided to go and look for sunshine. They take off on their journey early in the morning and drove all day trying to find a glimpse of sunlight. They didn’t have any luck. What made things worse was Tom’s scooter broke down and he needed it to be fixed. There was a town up a hill so they decided to stay there for the night. The town is very filthy and there wasn’t any sunlight. Lily and Tom stop at a bike station and they run into this old couple. Lily accidently grabs the old lady’s bag and she realizes it a couple of hours later. Tom and Lily decide to go and give it back. They find out the old lady’s house is in the forest, so they make their way toward her house. Once Tom and Lily get their the old lady wishes that they would stay for the night. Tom and Lily do and when they wake up they see sunlight! Both Tom and Lily stay for a couple of days until they realize that they have to go back and receive their bike. When they go back they run into some people that ask them where they were. Tom and Lily have to lie in order to let the old lady have peace and quiet in her little part of the woods. Or else if they tell then tons of people will migrate to that spot of sunlight and disturb the poor old couple.
In this story Joan describes what is going on in a very good way. Joan describes the mood by describing what the weather is like. She says that the sky is gray and always cloudy which helps set the mood that everyone is mad or grumpy just like the sky. The conflict in this story is man vs. society because Tom and Lily are trying to find sunlight along with tons of other people. This conflict helps make the plot. The climax is when Mr. Noakes runs into Tom and Lily and asks them where they have been. Tom and Lily have to lie and say that they lost track of time. They end up not going back because they were afraid that Mr. Noakes and the town would find out the patch of sunlight in the woods.
The type of characterization that goes on in the story is direct. Joan describes her characters through how they look and how they act and what they say. The two main characters Lily and Tom are round or dynamic characters in the story. Tom and Lily both start out looking for sunlight and once they find it they are different people. Tom and Lily are more happy people. Compared to the other characters who don't change at all. Those characters are flat characters. The protagonist is Tom and Lily and the antagonists is everyone else in the story except the two old couple. All of these elements of writing combine to set the mood of the story and also to make it a great story.
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lily doesnot grab the bag but picks it up seeing that ma hatching has dropped it. they leave on the very day of their wedding! they see the sunlight on the brass pendulum of the clock on the day they reach the cottage! when they go back to get their scooter, they run into mr.noakes in whose pub they decided to spend their first night, but had disappeared to the hatchings. they didnot tell mr.noakes about the sunshine coz he had said things about building new pubs in sun shone places! everything else was great!!!!!!!!!!!! waiting for more short story summaries! B-D
I lovee the Summary But i still dont know what the Plot is?
I need help making an Essay that talks about the theme of the story, the plot, the setting,the characters and how the change or learn. If you can help me I will Apreciate it (: Thank you
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